Re: inactive-mode-line face?

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Well, one problem is that all the windows become inactive when you are
>     in the minibuffer.  That is, as soon as you type "M-x" or "C-x C-f",
>     all the mode lines become displayed in the inactive face.  This might
>     be regarded as a feature, but perhaps users would like to know what
>     window is active even when they are typing at the minibuffer prompt.
> 
> I think that when the minibuffer is selected,
> the window in minibuffer-scroll-window should count
> as the "selected" window as regards the mode line.

Done.

> 
> (That is the window that was selected "outside" the minibuffer.)
> 
>     Also, I wonder whether the default for this face should really be
>     different from the mode-line face.  Perhaps we want that by default
>     this feature is invisible;
> 
> This feature should be good for beginners if we get the colors right.
> So the default should be that it does something you can see.

As part of the above change, I added a mode-line-in-non-selected-windows
variable which the user can set to nil to disable this feature.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk